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3 days ago · In May 1933 the trade unions organization was suppressed and the unions merged into a German labour front under Robert Ley. This was followed in the course of the summer by the suppression or “voluntary” dissolution of the other political parties.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · Located near the industrial town of Oświęcim in southern Poland (in a portion of the country that was annexed by Germany at the beginning of World War II), Auschwitz was actually three camps in one: a prison camp, an extermination camp, and a slave-labour camp.
- Michael Berenbaum
22 hours ago · A new organisation, the German Labour Front, was created and placed under Nazi Party functionary Robert Ley. Many unemployed people were forcibly drafted into this organisation, where they were given uniforms and tools and put to work.
22 hours ago · German national employees at that time numbered 15.3 million, or a mere 53 per cent of the labour force. Between 1939 and 1941 Polish and French deployment to Germany had been heavily concentrated in agriculture, but by the summer of 1944, shifts in immigration meant that the total number of foreign workers was divided equally between agriculture, heavy industry and other industrial branches ...
4 days ago · Volkswagen Group, major German automobile manufacturer, founded by the German government in 1937 to mass-produce a low-priced “people’s car.” Headquarters are in Wolfsburg, Germany. The company was originally operated by the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront), a Nazi organization.
2 days ago · Generalplan Ost was only partially implemented during the war in territories occupied by Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II, resulting indirectly and directly in the deaths of millions by shootings, starvation, disease, extermination through labour, and genocide.
1 day ago · Labor was reorganised on the basis of the German Labour Front. Heydrich used equipment confiscated from the Czech gymnastics organisation Sokol to organise events for workers. Food rations and free shoes were distributed, pensions were increased, and (for a time) free Saturdays were introduced.
